Social media platforms like Twitter have demonstrated a continuous increase of active users over the most recent years (Pereira-Kohatsu et al. 2019). An average of 500 million tweets per day combined ...

Enke, Benjamin, and Thomas Graeber. "Cognitive Uncertainty in Intertemporal Choice." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29577, December 2021. (R&R at The Quarterly Journal of Economics.) ...

This post is in response to Know When to Walk Away By Susan K Perry Ph.D. Consistently choosing immediate reward over delayed gratification is one of compulsive overeaters’ fundamental challenges.

People tend to attach less value to a good if they know a delay will occur before they obtain it. For example, people value receiving $100 tomorrow more than receiving $100 in 10 years. We explored ...

Financial word of the day: Intertemporalization is the process of evaluating economic choices across time, not at a single moment. In finance and economics, it means weighing present costs against ...

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… is from Thomas Sowell’s 2010 book “Intellectuals and Society” in the chapter titled “Intertemporal Abstractions” (emphasis mine): The intelligentsia in 21st century America speak of “whites” and ...

Intertemporal risk parity is a strategy that rebalances risky assets and cash in order to target a constant level of ex ante risk over time. When applied to equities and compared with a buy-and-hold ...